Across
- 2. sand desert encompassing most of the southern third of the Arabian Peninsula.
- 3. -a viscous liquid derived from petroleum, especially for use as a fuel or lubricant.
- 4. - a town or city with a harbor where ships load or unload, especially one where customs officers are stationed.
- 11. - a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land
- 12. a human-made waterway that cuts north-south across the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt
- 14. the supply of water to land or crops to help growth, typically by means of channels.
- 15. -the belief in or worship of more than one god.
Down
- 1. - a strait between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.
- 5. a long narrow sea between Arabia and NE Africa, linked with the Mediterranean in the north by the Suez Canal and with the Indian Ocean in the south
- 6. -largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims.
- 7. -a city in Saudi Arabia that was the birthplace of Muhammad and is the holiest city of Islam
- 8. -one of the two main branches of Islam, followed especially in Iran, that rejects the first three Sunni caliphs and regards Ali, the fourth caliph, as Muhammad's first true successor.
- 9. there are many people living there compared with another similar-sized area.
- 10. -the law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first five books of the Hebrew scriptures
- 13. the easternmost of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates.